Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

"Fellow Daoist Ziyang, what do you think of this Guide Peak?"

On a beautiful peak in the Wuchen Mountains, Lv Yuan descended his light and greeted him warmly.

Chen Yuan followed him, his eyes swept over the Guide Peak, which was about 200 feet high, and nodded slightly: "This peak has beautiful scenery, elegant and quiet, which suits my taste very well."

Two months have passed since he proposed to practice in seclusion.

After Lv Yuan's persuasion, he stopped seclusion and continued to refine pills for the Lu family cultivators until now, finally entering the Wuchen Mountains.

Since he is not a Lu family cultivator, he cannot leave his natal Yuan lamp in the Lu family ancestral temple, and the family protection formation cannot sense his soul. If he wants to enter the Wuchen Mountains, he must use a special method to sacrifice the guest token.

The Lu family naturally would not tell the guest about this method. Three days ago, Chen Yuan handed the guest token to Lv Yuan, and today it was returned to the original owner. From then on, he can freely enter and exit the Wuchen Mountains.

Lv Yuan did not waste time and immediately led Chen Yuan to Guide Peak to help him open a cave.

The Wuchen Mountains are only a dozen miles long, and the mountains are tortuous, covering an even smaller area. There are also many barren hills and low mountains, so there are not many beautiful places for opening caves.

Over the past six hundred years, the caves of the foundation-building monks of the Lu family have long been spread throughout the Wuchen Mountains. In addition to the caves where the sixty-one monks now live, there are still many idle ones.

Lv Yuan said that he was helping Chen Yuan open a cave, but in fact he just chose an idle cave. He just followed the traditional saying of the Lu family according to habit to show his importance to Chen Yuan.

There are six caves on Guide Peak, which is considered a small number among the nearly ten peaks in the Wuchen Mountains. Two of them are idle and can be chosen by Chen Yuan.

Under the leadership of Lv Yuan, Chen Yuan checked the two caves one by one and chose a more remote cave.

This cave is near the foot of Guide Peak. It is larger than the other cave, but the spiritual energy in it is much thinner and has been idle for more than 200 years.

Lv Yuan wondered, "No one has ever visited this cave. Why did Daoist Fellow Ziyang choose this place?"

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "I want to refine pills. I hate outside interference. This place is remote and quiet. It is the most suitable place."

Lv Yuan suddenly understood and said no more. He said goodbye and left.

After sending Lv Yuan away, Chen Yuan took out a set of low-level spiritual arrays and set up arrays outside the cave.

The Wuchen Mountains are guarded by a large array to protect the clan. It is extremely safe. The Lu family will not provide arrays for the guest monks in the clan. They can only prepare them themselves.

After Chen Yuan set up the array, he returned to the practice room, took out the pills and spiritual herbs, and continued to refine the pills.

In the past two months, many Lu family monks came to ask Chen Yuan to refine pills. He accepted them all. Now there are still five furnaces of pills to be refined.

Chen Yuan was very fast at refining the foundation-building pills, but this time he deliberately slowed down the speed, just like an ordinary master of alchemy.

Two days later, Chen Yuan had just finished purifying a spiritual herb when Lu Qing's divine sense suddenly descended and enveloped him. It took a long time before it dissipated.

Chen Yuan smiled slightly and continued to refine the pill without checking the source of the divine sense.

He had expected that even if Lu Qing allowed him to enter the Dustless Mountains, he would not let down his guard against him.

Although he did not deal with Lu Qing much, he could see that this person was meticulous and cautious, and would never trust others easily.

And the way Chen Yuan mixed into the Lu family was still a bit rough. The identity of the master of alchemy was too conspicuous, which would inevitably attract Lu Qing's attention.

But he did not plan to spend several years or even more than ten years for an inheritance whose details he did not know. As long as Lu Gui did not notice him, others were not a concern.

In the next six months, Chen Yuan had been refining pills steadily, handing the refined pills to the Lu family cultivators, winning praise.

During this period, Lu Qing had been using his spiritual sense to investigate his whereabouts, but Chen Yuan did not reveal any flaws. Lu Qing's frequency of using his spiritual sense to monitor him was getting lower and lower. The last time he used his spiritual sense to investigate was two months ago.

At this time, there were no late-stage and mid-stage foundation-building cultivators looking for Chen Yuan to make pills. No matter how many spiritual herbs they had, they were not endless.

However, the number of early-stage foundation-building cultivators who came to Chen Yuan to make pills increased a lot. Hundred-year spiritual herbs were easier to obtain, and the number of early-stage foundation-building cultivators in the Lu family was the largest. Compared with Lu Dongji, who had a lower success rate, they were more willing to find Chen Yuan to make pills.

Lu Dongji was naturally very dissatisfied with this situation. He had been spreading rumors that were not favorable to Chen Yuan for the past six months, but in front of the real pills, it did not play any role.

Fortunately, the Lu family would not ignore the alchemy masters they cultivated. Most of the spiritual herbs in the family were given to Lu Dongji to make pills.

At the same time, they were also stepping up the training of alchemists, hoping to have one more alchemy master and reduce their dependence on Chen Yuan.

This situation lasted for half a year. After Chen Yuan entered the Wuchen Mountains, he had been diligently refining pills. With the help of Lv Dongji, the demand for pills from the Lu family cultivators was finally met, and the number of cultivators who asked him to refine pills decreased significantly.

After Chen Yuan joined the Lu family, he had been refining pills for others and had accumulated a lot of pills. He immediately announced that he would go into seclusion to practice. There were also two or three Lu family cultivators who had recently returned to Wuchen Island from the outer islands and wanted to find Chen Yuan to refine pills, but they could only return in disappointment.

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Five months later, Chen Yuan sat in the dim practice room, slowly opened his eyes, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

After he announced his retreat, Lv Qing's surveillance of him became much tighter.

In the first month, Lu Qing had to use his spiritual consciousness to check once every two or three days, but Chen Yuan just practiced with peace of mind and there was no abnormality.

In the second month, the frequency of Lu Qing's spiritual consciousness checks slowed down to once every seven or eight days.

In the third month, Lu Qing would only use his spiritual consciousness to check every half month.

In the past two months, Lu Qing has never used his spiritual consciousness to investigate again.

He finally let down his guard and didn't have to worry about being discovered when he was looking for the place of inheritance. It was time to take action.

Chen Yuan stood up and walked out of the cave. It was late at night, and there was no cloud in the sky. The stars flickered, appearing and disappearing, forming a galaxy that ran through the night sky. A full moon hung in the sky, and silver frost covered the earth.

The Wuchen Mountains shrouded in night are peaceful and quiet, and the distant peaks are hidden in the darkness. The mountain wind blows, and the low green grass undulates along the ridge of Guide Peak, swaying gently in the moonlight.

Worried about Lu Qing's surveillance, Chen Yuan has never filled his body with starlight since he entered the Lu family's land, and the tempering of his physical body has been stagnant for a long time.

He looked up at the long-lost starry sky without escaping. The place marked on the jade slip map emerged in his mind, and he walked quietly through the mountains and forests.

As he was walking, he raised his hand to grab it, and the Golden Dragon Sword and Fengyun Bell appeared. His consciousness spread out and enveloped him for hundreds of feet.

There were three pill-forming monks in the Wuchen Mountains. Chen Yuan did not dare to spread his consciousness wildly, so he could only be more careful and be prepared to take action at any time.

But in such a late night, the monks of the Lu family were practicing in the cave. There was not a single ray of light in the sky, and there was not a single figure in the mountains. Only the sound of gurgling water and swaying branches and leaves reached Chen Yuan's ears.

Guide Peak is located on the edge of the Wuchen Mountain Range. Chen Yuan followed the marks on the map and passed through half of the mountain range until he came to the foot of a peak that was more than 500 feet high.

This peak is called Qingling Mountain, and it is the third highest peak in the Wuchen Mountain Range. There are nine caves of foundation-building monks on it, all of which are inhabited.

Chen Yuan was more cautious, even dispelling the light-body technique, and carefully climbed Qingling Mountain, deliberately avoiding the caves of the foundation-building monks.

When he was refining elixirs for the monks of the Lu family, there were several monks whose caves were on Qingling Mountain.

While chatting with them, he intentionally or unintentionally inquired about Qingling Mountain and knew the distribution of caves on this mountain.

Two quarters of an hour later, Chen Yuan arrived halfway up the mountain and stopped in front of a rock.

This is a dark gray rock that is two people tall. It has a rough surface and nothing strange in its shape. It is very inconspicuous on the beautiful Qingling Mountain.

But after Chen Yuan saw this mountain rock, a gleam flashed in his eyes. According to the description on the jade slip map, he took out the jade slip and pasted it on the rock!

As soon as the pure white jade slips came into contact with the mountain stone, it immediately emitted a faint light. The rough stone skin on the surface of the mountain stone peeled off by itself, revealing the crystal blue color.

After a while, all the stone skins fell down, revealing a piece of sapphire as tall as a person, which emitted a rich light under the moonlight. Even the white jade slips were dyed a layer of cyan.

At this time, the pure white jade slip slowly merged into the sapphire, and the light emitted by the sapphire became more and more dazzling until the jade slip disappeared completely, and a blue light pillar rose into the sky and penetrated into the sky.

Chen Yuan's expression changed. The jade slip map didn't say that such an abnormality would happen!

"How dare you, Fang Xiaoxiao, run wild in the Wuchen Mountain Range!" An angry shout resounded through the entire mountain range like thunder, and then a ray of spiritual consciousness swept across and locked on Chen Yuan.

Along with the spiritual consciousness, there is also an extremely tyrannical pressure that far exceeds that of Lu Qing who first met Chen Yuan in the Lingdan Hall. Only one person in the Lu family can possess this kind of pressure, and that is the head of the Lu family, Lu Return!

After a moment, two other much weaker spiritual consciousnesses also fell on Chen Yuan. One of them was very familiar. It was Lu Qing who had been monitoring Chen Yuan for nearly a year.

"Taoist Ziyang!"

Lu Qing's surprised voice rang in Chen Yuan's ears, but he ignored it. After the jade slip was completely integrated into the sapphire, an invisible wave spread out, and a narrow door appeared on the surface of the sapphire, just enough for one person to pass through. Behind the door It was a blinding white light with nothing visible.

Chen Yuan was very familiar with this invisible wave. It was the power of space that he had experienced in the Dongxu Mountain Secret Realm and the Wentian Cauldron Secret Realm.

He stepped into the narrow door without hesitation, and his body was quickly swallowed up by the sapphire.

"Stop!" A swift ray of light flew from the Wuchen Peak, the only thousand-foot peak in the Wuchen Mountain Range, and arrived in front of Qingyu in the blink of an eye.

The light disappeared, and an old man was hanging in the air, looking down at Qingyu who had returned to his original shape, his expression extremely ugly.

This man was tall, with black hair, but frost-white temples, square appearance, and full of majesty.

The next moment, two rays of light flew over, revealing the figures of Lu Qing and another white-haired old man. There were also a dozen foundation-building monks who flew out from various peaks and came behind the three of them, looking at them in surprise and uncertainty. Looking at the dimmed sapphire.

Lu Gui raised his hand to grab it, and a dark blue Changge appeared out of thin air. With a slight wave, a dark blue light blade flew out and struck the sapphire.

The sapphire light flashed, a subtle spatial fluctuation spread out, and the dark blue light blade disappeared without a trace, leaving the sapphire intact.

Lu Gui's eyes flashed: "What a thief, he is actually a space magic weapon!"

Only Yuanying monks can refine space magic weapons. They are at least high-level magic weapons. They contain the power of space. Only Yuanying monks can break them. Even if the three of them work together, they can't do anything to this piece of sapphire.

The white-haired old man frowned and glanced at Lu Qing: "Who is that young Taoist? Why do you know that there is such a space magic weapon in the Wuchen Mountain Range?"

He is Lu Haiwei, the second elder of the Lu family, who has been practicing in seclusion for many years. When he first encountered this matter, he was naturally confused.

Lu Gui also turned his head. Lu Qing stared at Qingyu, gritted his teeth and said: "Uncle, Sixth Uncle, my nephew is mistaken..."

Until now, he still couldn't tell that Chen Yuan had ulterior motives, so he immediately told Chen Yuan exactly what he wanted to do.

Lu Gui looked stern after hearing this, while Lu Haiwei shook his head slightly. The foundation-building monks who gathered one after another were all astonished.

They never thought that Taoist Ziyang, who was gentle and courteous and skilled in alchemy, had evil intentions and intended to steal the Lu family's treasures!

Lu Gui turned around and glanced at everyone, and said calmly: "You guys should retreat first. This Ziyang Taoist is acting so unscrupulously, and he must have someone to rely on. The monks on Qingling Mountain should also retreat for the time being."

No one dared to disobey the words of the highly respected head of the family. After bowing to the three Master Jiedan one by one, they dispersed.

Lu Yuan stared at Qing Yu, then turned around and left for the last time, his face as gloomy as water.

It was he who proposed to recruit Taoist Ziyang as a guest minister. Although he was Lu Gui's direct grandson, Lu Gui was indifferent and practiced in seclusion for many years. He didn't care much about his grandchildren. He might not be able to escape severe punishment, and he already hated Taoist Ziyang in his heart. Bone deep.

After the foundation-building monks left, Lu Guicai said coldly: "This space magic weapon must have existed on Qingling Mountain before the establishment of our Lu family. It has not been nourished by spiritual veins for more than six hundred years." , It definitely won’t last long, we’ll just stay here and wait for him to come out!”

Lu Hai slightly stroked his long beard under his chin and said hesitantly: "Could this person be a Yuanying monk?"

He is approaching the end of his life and just wants to spend his last years in peace. He has a conservative and cautious mentality and does not want to cause trouble.

"Impossible!" Lu Qing said with a ferocious expression, "If Taoist Ziyang was a Yuanying monk, how could he have been lurking in the Wuchen Mountains for such a long time, nor would he be so anxious to enter the space magic weapon, and would not dare to face his uncle directly!"

Lu Gui said coldly: "Yes, this person dares to enter the Wuchen Mountains to steal treasures, so he should have some strength, but he is so careful in his actions. His cultivation level is at the late stage of pill formation at most. With the help of the clan protection formation, he can't even think of escaping. "

"If he continues to be unable to retreat, I will go to Zhenhai Sect and ask Master Yuanying to take action to break the restrictions of this space magic weapon!"